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For Rev. Rick Warren: What Would Jesus Do?
Much controversy continues to surround president-elect Barack Obama’s choice of Rev. Rick Warren to give the invocation at his upcoming inaugural ceremony on January 20, 2009.
Warren is very popular among the Christian right. He is the California mega-church, anti-gay marriage pastor, who during the campaign last fall held a meeting at the Saddleback church which featured the Republican candidate and President-elect Obama.Warren is the Christian leader who equates committed gay relationships to incest, polygamy and “an older guy marrying a child.”
We believe Warren’s selection is merely symbolic. It’s a political token to those who despite casting a vote for Barack Obama support California’s Proposition 8, banning gay marriages, and other similar legislation abridging the rights of all homosexual citizens.
We think lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender folk must consider the quality of Mr. Obama’s policies. The character of his religious advisors, whether Rev. Jeremiah Wright or Rev. Rick Warren, is not the reason he was elected.
As the gay citizens reflect upon that point we believe Rev. Warren and those who agree with him should reconsider their position. Warren could help unite our nation by becoming less of a symbol and provide more substance by behaving more like Christ. He should recant his reprehensible remarks.
We believe Jesus would exhibit more tolerance, more compassion, and understanding. Most of all we believe He would be more loving toward gay citizens. That’s what we think Jesus would do.
That’s what we think Rev. Warren and his cohorts must do to make ours a more perfect union.
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